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Presented on April 22, 1998 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1998 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Elmira College. He is the author of Individualism and Its Discontents: Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997).
Topic: Religion
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Aug 8, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at the Park Church as part of the 2019 Park Church Summer Lecture Series. The December 1872 death of Hawaiian monarch Kamehameha spurred renewed interest among US citizens and politicians alike in the annexation of the Hawaiian islands. To satisfay the public's increased curiosity about Hawai'i in January 1873 the New York Daily Tribune sought testimony in the form of two letters from a well-known expert on the islands: Mark Twain. Twain had gained...
Topics: Hawaii, Humor Studies, Newspapers
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Jul 8, 2019
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Presented on Monday, July 24, 1989 in the Quarry Farm Barn. Hamlin Hill, Professor of English at Texas A&M University, will speak on "Late Mark Twain: From Bad Philosophy to Worse Literature." Professor Hill is the Center's Distinguished Fellow-in-Residence this summer. During his tenure here, he is the Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for Teachers on "The Heritage of Huckleberry Finn." Professor Hill has lectured throughout the...
Topic: Later Works
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Aug 7, 2017
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Presented on Friday, August 4 in the Kolker Hall Auditorium on the Elmira College Campus as part of Elmira 2017: The Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. Beginning with Mark Twain's sudden ascent to the rank of American Artist right around the year 1950 - Gladys Bellamy's book; Eliot's and Trilling's competing songs of High Modernist eulogy, and an aside on why we got them at that moment - I'd look into that same beirf span of time, the early Fifties, as the...
Topic: Literary History
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Oct 6, 2019
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Presented on Saturday, October 5, 2019 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the "Mark Twain and Nature" Quarry Farm Symposium. This article will trace Mark Twain's early notes and letters to the Sacramento Union and Alta California during his four-month stay on the Hawaiian islands in 1866 and his subsequent trip down the Rio San Juan in Nicaragua later that year, considering his poetic meditations on a diversity of flora and fauna alongside his occasionally direct and sometimes...
Topics: Nature, Travel, Hawaii, Early Works
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Oct 8, 2018
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Presented on October 6, 2018 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age." In his 2015 essay "White Boy (American Hunger) and the Angel History: Russel Banks's Identity Knowledge," Evan Carton argues that Banks's novels provide an illuminating window onto the question of identity construction in that they repeatedly narrate a white identity that is "necessarily incomplete,...
Topics: Russell Banks, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Gilded Age
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Jul 12, 2019
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Presented on May 1, 1996 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1996 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough are the editors of the recently published book The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings of Heaven, Eden, and The Flood (University of Georgia Press, 1995). Howard G. Baetzhold is the Rebecca Clifton Reade Professor of English Emeritus at Butler University and the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies' first John S. Tuckey...
Topic: Religion
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Jun 15, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at the Park Church. Molly Ball is an Assistant Professor of English at Eureka College. She received her PhD in 2016 from the University of California at Davis, and she is currently at work on a book manuscript, tentatively titled, “Writing Out of Time: Temporal Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century Narrative,” that explores narrative structure in Anglophone literature. She is particularly interested in questions about national identity and travel, and...
Topics: Travel, Hawaii
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Aug 23, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, May 26 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Close your eyes and picture Mark Twain. What do you see? Most likely a white suit, white hair, big white whiskers, and a bigger cigar. What does he sound like? Southern with a drawl. "mark Twain Illustrated and Impersonated" is a historical discussion concerning what we know about Mark Twain - through the mediums of caricature and dramatic performance - and how we've come to know it. Through slides and...
Topics: Public Image, Branding, Reception
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Jul 8, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, March 28, 1990 in the Quarry Farm Barn. Kerry Driscoll of Elmira College's English faculty offers us an encore of her illustrated talk "A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain in Heidelberg." Professor Driscoll served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg in 1986. Choice Magazine lists her recently published William Carlos Williams and the Maternal Muse among the "Outstanding American Books of 1988-89."
Topics: A Tramp Abroad, Travel
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Jun 26, 2019
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Presented on Monday, March 28, 1988 at The Park Church. Professor Myra Glenn of Elmira College's History faculty will speak on "Thomas K. Beecher and the Anti-Slavery Movement." She is currently at work on a biography of the Reverend and spoke recently on her subject at the Ninth Mid-America Conference on History. Professor Glenn has authored a book and several articles on reform in nineteenth century America and has served as a visiting Professor of History at Casa Thomas...
Topics: Twain's Circle, Elmira, Racial Issues, Slavery, Religion
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Presented on Wednesday, October 12, 1994 at Quarry Farm. Marlene Boyd Vallin, Pennsylvania State University.
Topic: Lecture Circuit
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, October 27, 1993 at Quarry Farm. Dr. Resa Willis is a professor of literature at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, and the author of Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him . During the work on her book, Dr. Willis was a research scholar at the Center.
Topics: Family, Women's Studies
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Jun 26, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, June 29, 1988 at Quarry Farm. Professor James D. Wilson of Southwestern Louisiana University's English Department will speak on "Mark Twain, Olivia Langdon, and the Struggle for Orthodoxy." Dr. Wilson has a research fellowship in residence at the Center and is here for three weeks to continue work on a book well underway about Mark Twain and religion. He is the author of A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Mark Twain , other books, and numerous articles...
Topics: Religion, Family
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Jul 12, 2018
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Presented on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at The Park Church. In his 1899 essay "Concerning the Jews," Twain states: I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no racial prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse." Although the writer refused to name the one bias he admits to harboring, abundant evidence in...
Topics: Racial Issues, Native Americans
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Jul 8, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, September 27, 1989 in the Quarry Farm Barn. Pascal Covici, Jr., E.A. Lilly Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, is this Fall's Distinguished Academic Visitor at the Center. His talk is entitled: "Western Pleasure versus Eastern Propriety, or Eastern Repression and Western Guilt? A Quick Look at Mark Twain's Humor." Professor Covici's principal work, Mark Twain's Humor: The Image of a World , received the Texas Writers Round-up Award, and...
Topic: Humor Studies
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Sep 1, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Mark Twain's interviews, all dated between 1871 and 1910 and recently collected, shed new light on his views on war and military imperialism, on race and racism, and on his theories about humor. More specifically, in his interviews he was outspoken in his opposition to the war in the Philippines and military aggression; he expressed views on the subject of race consistent with those of a 19th-century progressive; and he...
Topics: Public Image, Autobiography, Humor
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Jul 11, 2017
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Presented on September 23, 1985 at Quarry Farm. James M. Cox is Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Recovering Literature's Lost Ground: Essays in American Autobiography (1989) and Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor (2002). He is the editor of the Penguin edition of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi . My talk will focus on Mark Twain's progress from being a real outlaw (a traitor and a deserter) to his invention of a boy outlaw, a true fugitive, writing...
Topics: Violence, Civil War, Slavery
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Sep 1, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. For six months beginning in September 1870, a spate of family tragedies and crises left Mark Twain struggling to repeat the success of his first book, Innocents Abroad (1868). To get back on track, Clemens invited his lifelong friend, Joe Goodman, to spend the summer with him at Quarry Farm. With Goodman's encouragement, Mark Twain finished his second book, Roughing It (1872) and regained his self-confidence....
Topics: Nature, Later Works, Quarry Farm
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Aug 7, 2017
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Presented on Friday, August 4 in the Gibson Theater on the Elmira College campus as the keynote speech for Elmira 2017: The Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. A meditation on Twain's weaponization of humor for social ends, and the lessons it bears for the present political moment. With special attention to Twain's use of vulgarity, and his gleeful demolition of norms. In our own era of political obscenity, what can Twain teach us about the power of profanity...
Topics: Politics, Humor, National Identity
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Oct 6, 2019
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Presented on Saturday, October 5, 2019 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the "Mark Twain and Nature" Quarry Farm Symposium. Although Mark Twain was not himself an environmentalist, he was deeply sensitive to the interdependence of humankind and the natural world, to the conditions, often difficult, under which we inhabit the natural world, and to its ultimate indifference to our desires -- issues that continue to preoccupy environmentalists and ecocritics, whether they are...
Topics: Nature, Life on the Mississippi
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Jul 16, 2019
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Presented on May 26, 1999 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1999 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Join us to welcome Dr. Doyno, Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, once again to Elmira College. He was the Center for Mark Twain Studies's first scholar-in-residence in 1984.
Topics: Family, Children
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, June 1, 1994 at Quarry Farm. Richard Kastl is an architectural historian from the Public Archaeology Facility, Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and the Elmira College guest lecturer for Term III Introduction to Archaeology. Under the direction of Richard Kastl, Elmira College students participate in archaeological field experience at Quarry Farm.
Topics: Quarry Farm, Archaeology
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Jun 26, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, May 4, 1988 at Quarry Farm. Nicholas Karanovich will talk about "Collecting Mark Twain" as a highly successful practitioner of the art. His collection will be on exhibit next year at the Lilly Library of the University of Indiana. Mr. Karanovich is a past contributor to American Book Collector and the private publisher of A Mark Twain Collector's List .
Topic: Collections
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, October 26, 1994 at Quarry Farm. Laura E. Skandera-Trombley, State University of New York at Potsdam.
Topics: Elmira, Women's Studies
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Jul 16, 2019
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Presented on May 6, 1998 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1998 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Chad Rohman is the Spring 1998 Research Fellow-in-Residence at Quarry Farm. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Bowling Green State University.
Topic: Epistemology
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Presented on Saturday, October 5, 2019 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the "Mark Twain and Nature" Quarry Farm Symposium. This talk examines Mark Twain's unfinished manuscript 3,000 Years among the Microbes , written in Dublin, New Hampshire in 1905. More precisely, I provide a historical backdrop for the manuscript by putting it in dialogue with two major shifts in medical thought at the end of the nineteenth century: (1) the rise of microbiology, introducing a new discourse...
Topics: Later Works, Nature, Science
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Presented on Thursday, May 3, 2007 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. "The War-Prayer," a satire by Mark Twain on a nation's invoking religion as it goes off to war, was written 102 years ago - but, sadly, it's as fresh as the morning paper today. First published in 1923, "The War-Prayer" remains among the least-well-known works by Twain as far as the general public is concerned. Indeed, educated individuals are often startled and shocked when they are introduced by this...
Topics: Imperialism, Religion, Later Works, Patriotism, Reception
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Jul 9, 2019
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Presented on Monday, July 23 at Quarry Farm. Professor Susan K. Harris of Queens College will speak on "Overcoming Sin: The Audiences for Mark Twain's 'Hadleyburg.'" Professor Harris is the author of books, articles, and reviews on Mark Twain, nineteenth century American women writers, and other figures and topics in American literature.
Topics: Later Works, Religion
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Aug 22, 2017
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Presented on Monday, November 30, 2015 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. mark Twain has long been celebrated for his books and stories for, and about, youth. But in the past two decades, new approaches among scholars, readers, and publishers to literature written written for children have given us new lenses with which to see just how rich and forward-looking his perceptions of childhood and child-rearing in America really were. Andrew Levy is Edna Cooper Professor of English at...
Topics: Children, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Presented on Wednesday, September 13, 1989 at Quarry Farm. Malcolm Marsden, Dana Professor of English at Elmira Collge, will speak on "Mr. Micawber and Colonel Sellers: Transatlantic Cousins." Professor Marsden has been a member of the Center's Advisory Board since its inception and regularly reviews books for the Mark Twain Society Bulletin. He has authored books, articles, and reviews in the field of American literature and is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in...
Topic: The GIlded Age
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Oct 9, 2018
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Presented on Saturday, October 6 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age." In The Ordeal of Mark Twain , Van Wyck Brooks argued, with impressive disdain, that Mark Twain was a sell out, the he "abidcated his independence as creative spirit." While he places much of the blame on Twain himself, and on his own avarice and insecurity, Brooks also takes aim at Olivia Langdon, daughter...
Topics: Economics, Gothic Literature
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Jul 28, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. For most of us, the author Mark Twain is indelibly linked with his classic books about two juvenile delinquents, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. The scenes of Tom flimflamming his buddies into whitewashing a fence and Huck and Jim floating down the river to freedom on a raft easily come to mind. What doesn't pop into our heads, however, is Mark Twain's writings about the natural world in its myriad forms. Read any of his...
Topics: Roughing It, Science, Nature
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Aug 31, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Dr. Bush will offer a brief summary of sume of the material from his new book, Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age . Twain's cultural achievement was deeply indebted to the forms of Christianity of the specific time and place in American history. Much of this debt was positive for Twain, so much so that he could occasionally wax eloquent about Christianity as "the most precious and elevating and ennobling...
Topics: Religion, Civil War
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Oct 5, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. The title of this talk comes from a letter in which William Dean Howells congratulates Clemens on his 1903 anti-vivisection novella, A Dog's Tale . Mother dog Aileen Mavourneen's first-person account of a brutal experiment that killed her puppy is indeed heart breaking, and it gave much-need support to the movement against animal experimentation. In depicting animal subjectivity and challenging widely...
Topics: Animals, Twain's Circle, Later Works
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Presented on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. In a bitter diary entry near the end of his life, Mark Twain denounced "patriotism" as "that grotesque and laughable word The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism," he thundered," is moral cowardice and always has been." This denunciation reflected Twain's growing estrangement from politics following his wife's death, a time he saw as both a personal and national fall....
Topics: Patriotism, Later Years
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Oct 8, 2018
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Presented as the keynote for the 2018 Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age" on Friday, October 5, 2018 in Meier Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Why does American history seem to swing like a pendulum between eras of relative equality and eras of extreme inequality? Can we recover from the second Gilded Age? New answers to these questions are coming from an unexpected source - Darwin's theory of evolution, which has...
Topics: Science, Economics, The Gilded Age
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Aug 24, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, May 13 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. In the summer of 1883 close friends Joe Twichell and Samuel Clemens fell out over a piece of unwanted publicity the minister had published in the Hartford Courant - an incident with Quarry Farm origins. Clemens sent the clipping to relatives, scrawling on it: "I send this to beg that at least you folks will avoid this damned fool's example." It was one of several events that stand in relief against the two men's...
Topics: Joseph Twichell, Twain's Circle, Letters, Quarry Farm
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Jul 28, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, May 18, 2012 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. "Unconscious cerebration," "unconscious plagiarism," "mental telegraphy" - Mark Twain had various names for what the brain seemingly does beyond our consciousness. Tom Sawyer mutters in his sleep the truth about the murder of Doc Robinson. Tom Canty, the pauper disguised as the prince, reveals his identity to his mother by his uncontrollable reflex action of shielding his eyes when startled....
Topics: Psychology, Science
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Jul 27, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Since shortly before his death, local boosters, scholars, and others, have wanted to see where Mark Twain (and Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn) lived. These fans put a great deal of faith in his houses as places where they could access the "real" Mark Twain. At his houses, now museums, Twain remains as popular as he ever was during his lifetime. Focusing on the history of Florida, Hannibal, Hartford, and Elmira at...
Topics: Museum Studies, Hartford, Elmira
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Jul 27, 2017
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Presented on Friday, November 30, 2012 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Remarks on the prickly relationship between Samuel L. Clemens and Theodore Roosevelt through two decades when their lives overlapped and modern America was formed. Philip McFarland is the author of two works of fiction and six of non-fiction, including Hawthorne in Concord and Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe . His most recent book is Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the...
Topic: Theodore Roosevelt
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Aug 30, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. We'll never know, but someone could argue, and probably has, that Mark Twain would have been Mark Twain no matter what. Would have been mark Twain even if he - or even if Samuel Clemens - had never met Charley or Olivia Langdon or visited Elmira or Quarry Farm. That would surely have been a different Mark Twain, a Mark Twain with no Livy, no Langdons, no perch at the top of East Hill looking out across the Chemung Valley....
Topic: Quarry Farm
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Dec 9, 2016
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Presented on Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Steve Courtney, former Publicist and Publications Editor for The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, now works on special projects for the museum. In the past decade, Courtney has written and spoken on Samuel Clemens’ friend Joseph Hopkins Twichell and his role in literary and social history. Steve Courtney, shares glimpses of the Clemens’ family life in Hartford -- how young Clara Clemens once screamed so...
Topics: Hartford, Family, Twain's Circle
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Jul 9, 2019
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Presented on Monday, July 1, 1991 at Quarry Farm. Professor Leland Krauth of the University of Colorado will speak on "The Whimsical Mark Twain." Professor Krauth, a member of the Editorial Board of Studies in American Humor since 1982, is the author of numerous articles and reviews on Mark Twain and other American literary figures.
Topic: Humor Studies
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Aug 23, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. As America's first global celebrity, Mark Twain was a much-sought-after-commentator on politics and public policy. He warned against politicians who put loyalty to party above the national interest, the corrupting influence of money in elections and the legislative process, the irrelevance of political campaigns that sidestep issues of voter concern by resorting to platitudes and demonizing the opposition, and the false...
Topics: Politics, National Identity, Gilded Age
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Nov 22, 2016
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Presented at Quarry Farm Barn on October 26, 2016. Dr. Zehr is an independent Mark Twain scholar and a member of the Board of Directors of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home Foundation in Hannibal, Missouri. While famous for the attention-getting white linen suits he donned in his later years, Mark Twain was aware of the functional value of outer coverings throughout his life. Dr. Zehr gives a survey of Sam Clemens’s wardrobe choices which underscored Twain’s sensitivity to the status...
Topics: Public Image, Gender Studies, Clothing
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Presented on Wednesday, September 29, 1999 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1999 Fall "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Peter Messent, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Topic: Humor Studies
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Dec 10, 2016
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Presented on Wednesday, September 24 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Chad Rohman is Professor of English and Director of the Core Curriculum at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. He is the editor of the Mark Twain Annual and co-editor, with Joe Csicsila, of Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain’s No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (University of Missouri Press, 2009). His primary research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, particularly Mark Twain and his cohort, American...
Topics: Religion, Influences, Social Justice
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on July 13, 1992 at Quarry Farm. Thomas Quirk, the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri, will speak on "Is Huckleberry Finn 'Politically Correct?'" Professor Quirk is this Summer's scholar-in-residence at the Center. He is the author of books, articles, and reviews in the fields of American literature and culture and will chair the panel on "Critical Approaches to Mark Twain" at the Center's conference next summer on...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Current Events
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Presented on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Mark Twain was entranced by his Hartford friend Joe Twichell's stories of his experiences in the Civil War, where the minister-to-be was chaplain to a rough New York City regiment, and the author was quite happy to steal them. Steve Courtney, who with Peter Messent has edited the just-published Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story, will speak on Twichell's war-time experiences and their uses in Mark...
Topics: Joseph Twichell, Civil War
